Shoe-lace.



Patented lan. 29, |90I. T. E. LEWIS.

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(Application led Jan. 30, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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THOMAS E. LEWIS, OF VIOKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO THOMAS MAOKENZIE AND WILLIAM T. HOWARD, OF BALTIMORE,

MARYLAND.

S H OE- LAC E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 667,025, dated January 29, 1901.

Application filed January S0, 1900. Serial No. 3,276. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern: Supposing the shoe to be on the foot and Be it known that I, THOMAS E. LEWIS, of the lace threaded through the eyelets, the the city of Vicksburg, in the county of Warmanner of completing the lacing is as follows: ren and State of Mississippi, have invented The ends of the lace are drawn tightly and 5 certain Improvementsin Shoe-Laces,of which passed over the hooks b or as many of them 55 Ithe following is a specification. as is necessary or desired and again drawn The object of this invention is to construct until the proper tension is secured. The a shoe-lace in such manner that it will hold spurs are then turned up and the butt of each a shoe in a laced condition without its being tag pushed into the lace and Worked down 1o tied and without the employment of any de until the thickened portion effected by the 6o vices to coperate with it other than the eye presence of the tag comes against the top lets and hooks commonly used. hook or the last of the series used, the up- The said invention, briefly stated, consists wardly-turned spurs preventing the return of in distending a tubular shoe-lace subsequent the tag. The fastening is then complete.

15 to the lacing operation from its ends to points It will be understood that the portion of 65 where it comes into contact with the upper the lace above the hooks is enlarged or dishooks 0r any hooks below them, which may tended by the tag and an eXtra thickness be selected by means of the metallic tags of lace, and the enlargement will not pass which are pushed down into the lace, the tags through the hook, while it does not interfere zo being prevented from returning by upturned with the disengagement of the lace from the 7o spurs formed on the tags adapted to engage top hooks when the lace is to be slackened as with and catch the upper surface of the lace. a preliminary measure to the removal of the By this operation the lace is thickened from shoe from the foot. the hooks upward,so as to preclude their pass- The lacing can at any time be tightened by 2 5 ing through the hooks, and the shoe is held sliding the spurred tags farther down the lace, 75 in a laced condition fully as well as if the lace the tags being held after such movement by were tied. the spurs.

In the further description of the said in- The addition of the spurs to the tags does vention which follows reference is made to not appreciably increase their cost. Neither 3o the accompanying drawings, forming a part do the spurs interfere with the tying of the 8o hereof, and in whichlace should that mode of securing it be de- Figure l is a perspective View of a shoe sired. J laced in accordance with the present inven- I claim as my invention- 1 tion. Fig. 2 is a view of one end of the lace l. In combination with a tubular shoe-lace,

3 5 having an ordinary tag provided with spurs a tag secured thereto having spurs which are 85 adapted to be turned upward or toward the adapted to be upturned or made to fall back body of the tag. Fig. 3 is an edge view of toward the body of the tag, substantially as, Fig. 2. Fig. t is a View similar to Fig. 3 eX- and for the purpose specified. cept that the spurs of the tag are turned up 2. In combination with a tubular shoe-lace,

4o after the manner of the arms of an anchor. an attached tag having a spur projecting from 9o Fig. 5 illustrates the relative positions of the the same and extending over the lace, said lace and its tag at the beginning of the inY spur being adapted to be turned upward or vention of the tubular lace. Fig. 6 is a sectoward the body of the tag, substantially as tional view of the lace, showin g the tag wholly specified.

45 within it and anchored by means of the bent- 'I'. up spurs. Fig. 7is an outside view of Fig. 6. THOMAS E. LEWIS.

Referring now to the drawings, A represents a shoe, and B the shoe-lace, which in Witnesses: S Fig. l is shown as passed through the eyelets S. R. MARTIN,

5o a and over the hooks b. W. H. CACHMAN. 

